Booting problem

Rakhesh Sasidharan lists at rakhesh.com
Fri Aug 13 21:35:09 PDT 2004


On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:41:30 -0700, "Chris Palmer"
<chris at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> I believe that if the master is handling IO requests, the slave has to 
> wait until the master is done before the slave can do any IO. So if you 
> were reading from CDROM and the 3rd disk at the same time, the CDROM 
> would take precedence.

Ah I see ... thank's for that. The reason I asked this question is that
I remember reading someplace (a long time ago) that its preferrable to
have your hard disks on a separate bus from the CDROM coz that tends to
affect the disk performance (dont remember the exact details coz it was
a long time ago ... but I think it was something along the lines of what
you said). 

Rakhesh





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